Arising from John 9.1-41 (Lent 4, Year A) tune: Morning Hymn When we’re too certain how things are our firm resistance may push far, like Pharisees when Jesus healed, we may deny what God’s revealed. The evidence before our eyes we may laugh off, ignore, despise, and prejudice of divers kinds may cloud the workings […]
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Luke 21.25-36 Tune: Winchester New (Ride on, ride on in majesty) O Christ the truly human One, the one true friend of humankind, these times and troubles make us fear that, sadly, you’re no longer here. For wars drag on and death tolls rise, and despots spread their trumped-up lies, and would-be saviours tout their […]
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At times, in the struggle 2 Corinthians 12.9 Tune: To God be the glory At times, in the struggle, the road seems too long, the deserts too arid, all joy drained and gone; our wilderness wand’rings risk searing each soul; we’re dried up and failing, long miles from our goal. But God knows how it […]
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Written for Season of Creation and Earth Day Romans 8.19-25 Tune: Abbot’s Leigh All creation waits with longing for a better world to be, for a kinder, fairer planet, where all life has been set free, where Christ’s death and resurrection works renewal for it all, where God’s Spirit fills God’s children, ends all traces […]
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Great God, we want a fairer world! A plea for help in the struggle for justice, drawing on Elijah’s struggle and God’s response Tune: Repton (Dear God and…) Great God, we want a fairer world, an end to foolish ways; a world where might is not the right and vested int’rests lose their fight, where […]
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Written in response to social disruption in the UK Tune: Aurelia (The Church’s One Foundation) Let’s pray against the vi’lence, let’s pray against the fear, let’s pray for peace and justice, that calm may reappear, that those who seek disruption rethink, recoil, review, that sanity and kindness may soon break out anew. Let’s pray for […]
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